| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| fabric type |
PAE-G-8
|
| ware |
Glazed Wares |
| supposed site of production |
Paestum |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
yellowish red, granular; some white inclusions |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
5YR5/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
1%; void form: channel; vughy; void length: 0,04-0,28 |
| inclusions |
5%, length: 0,02-0,4 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
infrequent, angular, spherical, clear, 0,04-0,2 |
|
mica |
frequent, angular, spherical, white, 0,02-0,04 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
frequent, well rounded, spherical, white, 0,04-0,08 |
|
red iron oxide concretions |
frequent, angular, spherical - subspherical, reddish brown, 0,08-0,4 |
|
grey inclusions |
frequent, angular, spherical, grey, 0,04-0,2 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| vessel form type |
Saltcellar |
| fragmentation |
rim |
| surface description |
glazed
very dark gray glaze, 5YR3/1 |
| chronology of object |
Greek-Classic |
| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Velia
Late Archaic mudbrick houses beneath Insula II |
| registration code of context |
206/91 |
| registration code of object |
206/91 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| applied method for sample analysis |
thin section, heavy mineral analysis |
| analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
| petrographic mineralogical type |
RVG 07b |
| sample taken |
July 1998, by Maria Trapichler, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
| sample no |
M 2/113 |
| status of sample |
heavy mineral analysis surplus available |
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